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Fedora 31: 2020-93db553bb7 Critical: xawtv User Escalation Issue

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Xawtv patch for Fedora 31 fixes a severe vulnerability related to data exposure and unauthorized privilege escalation. Ensure your systems are secure by updating today!
Update to 3.107

Summary

Xawtv is a simple xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver or

video4linux. Xawtv contains various command-line utilities for

grabbing images and .avi movies, for tuning in to TV stations, etc.

Xawtv also includes a grabber driver for vic.

Update to 3.107

* Sat Sep 26 2020 Dmitry Butskoy - 3.107-2

- bump release

* Sat May 16 2020 Mauro Carvalho Chehab - 3.107-1

- upgrade to version 3.107

[ 1 ] Bug #1882286 - CVE-2020-13696 xawtv: specially crafted input leads to information disclosure and user privilege escalation [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1882286

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-93db553bb7' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 3.107
Release: 2.fc31
Summary: TV applications for video4linux compliant devices

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